On 11/18/12 at 07:00am, Jens Staal wrote: > I agree with this. As an example distribution, Sabotage does things pretty > well. One detail that I like a lot (but it sort of depends on your stance on > symlinks) is the way applications usually are placed in it: > > Each application gets its own directory under /opt and then installed files > get symlinks in / (the file system hierarchy is stali-inspired with > everything > in root and usr just pointing back to root). > > For me, this is a nicer solution than for example pacman to keep track on > which files that belong to which package (no fragile databases needed). I am > also happy to report that dmenu/dwm works nicely on Sabotage (however, it > seems like some of the xlibs can not be linked statically).
djb had a similar idea with his slashpackage system. It doesn't seem to have caught on much, tough. > What I have noticed lately is however how much of the broken stuff that are > expected to build also relatively fundamental technologies. For example, mesa > (which is needed if one ever wants to run wayland instead of X) expects > libudev to build, and if the version requirements will increase further that > will basically force systemd on peopole. There are at least two forks of udev making it again standalone. (They are very likely going to be merged.) https://bitbucket.org/braindamaged/udev https://github.com/gentoo/udev-ng If enough people have interested in having systemd free systems it will be possible. Altough it might get more and more difficult when more programs start using systemd's services.
